Kean U. history scholar: The terrorism we don’t want to talk about | Opinion
By Brian Regal On a commuter train in Portland, Ore., a person began yelling racial and religious epithets at a couple of women he thought were Muslims. When other commuters tried to get him to stop he stabbed three of them — two of them died. The accused attacker, who was captured, was seen giving […]
Why Are ISIS Suicide Bombers Attacking Shia Muslims?
Twin suicide blasts near the city of Karbala, Iraq, killed at least 30 and wounded 40 more in the latest in a series of Islamic State group (ISIS) bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar. At least 30 individuals, all of them civilians, were killed and 35 wounded […]
Monitor: US-backed Syrian forces make gains against Islamic State
US-backed Syrian forces have made territorial gains against Islamic State as part of an ongoing operation to capture the extremist militia’s de facto capital of al-Raqqa in Syria, a monitoring group reported on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition, backed by US-led air power,…
Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Anti-Islam Content on Social Media
An anti-terrorism court in central Pakistan on Saturday sentenced a man, aged 30, to death for posting blasphemous content on social media. The judge conducted the judicial proceedings in the high-security prison in the city of Bahawalpur, prosecutor Mohammad Shafiq Qureshi told VOA. The prosecutor explained that the court found Taimoor Raza guilty of using […]
How US groups spread hate via the Islamophobia industry
Anti-Muslim marches are slated to take place in dozens of cities across the United States on Saturday, with several counterprotests expected. ACT for America, the country’s largest grassroots anti-Muslim group described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as an “extremist group”, called for the nationwide “March Against Sharia”. In a statement on ACT for […]
March Against Sharia Targets Muslims in U.S.
ACT for America founder Brigitte Gabriel says the Islamic law known as Sharia is taking over the land, eclipsing the U.S. Constitution, with radical clerics turning the nation into a modern-day caliphate. That isn’t even remotely true, but the inconvenient fact is unlikely to stop anti-Islamic zealots who disguise their Islamophobia as a humanistic concern […]
London Attack: Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Rise Fivefold
Saturday’s attack in London by a three-man jihadi cell that left eight people dead has sparked a wave of hate crime against Muslims in the British capital, according to new figures. London mayor Sadiq Khan released police figures on Wednesday that showed Islamophobic attacks had risen fivefold since the ramming and knife assault. They also […]
UN: Islamic State Killed 231 Civilians Trying to Flee Mosul
The United Nations Human Rights Office said Thursday it has “credible reports” indicating Islamic State fighters in Iraq killed at least 231 civilians who were trying to flee western Mosul. The reported killings happened between May 26 and June 3, all in the al-Shifa neighborhood, and involved people trying to get from Islamic State-held areas […]
The Muslim Brotherhood Explained
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been in the news lately as one of the reasons behind the current diplomatic crisis between Qatar and other Gulf countries. On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters during a visit to Paris that Qatar “must stop supporting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood”. Jubeir’s statements came two days […]
Hard-line Islamist Groups Meet Official, Popular Roadblocks in Indonesia
After playing a major role in Indonesian politics by influencing the Jakarta election, hard-line Islamist groups may have hit an impasse. Although they were allowed broad leverage to organize and demonstrate across Indonesia in the past year, an effort to replicate their success outside Jakarta fell flat, and the government has taken measures to hamper […]